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Subject: [OM] Re: the Black Death was Re: Leopard upgrade
From: Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 07:58:13 +1100
In the countryside where I was partly raised (Leicestershire) was a  
large field with odd low mounds. I discovered eventually that it was  
the remains of a plague village - obvious from aerial view.
Here, chicken pox was enough to wipe out a significant proportion of  
the indigenous population before they even saw a European. It  
travelled much faster than we did.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



On 07/11/2007, at 2:36 AM, Garth Wood wrote:

> During the 1340s plague, in some parts of Britain (particularly  
> portions
> of the Cornwall coast and, oddly, parts of the county of Oxford), the
> mortality rate was 100%.  Entire villages simply disappeared forever.
> Writings which survived depict a population convinced that the Day of
> Judgment had arrived.



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